Tony Blankley: Roe v. Wade v. technology

TownHall.com ^ | Wednesday, July 27, 2005 | Tony Blankley

[JohnHuang2]

As the John Roberts' Supreme Court nomination fight opens, the predicted battle to save or kill Roe v Wade already has taken to the streets, the Internet and the media. But the 32-year-old constitutional right to an abortion may face its gravest challenge not from red state values triumphing on the Supreme Court, but from medical research being carried out in elite blue state universities and in Europe and Asia.

It is the very language of Roe that carries the seed of its own possible irrelevance within the next several years. Roe enunciated the more or less unencumbered right of a woman to obtain an abortion prior to fetal viability. After viability, the right of states to regulate or prohibit abortions arise. The court defined legal viability as "potentially able to live outside the mother's womb, albeit with artificial aid."

But medical science is remorselessly advancing on two fronts along paths that may fairly soon seize and destroy in a scientific pincer movement the viability of Roe's reasoning.

When Roe was handed down in 1973, the survivability of prematurely born babies was not medically possible before 28 weeks of gestation. Today, babies born after only 20 weeks of gestation routinely survive -- and thus are viable under the Roe definition (and thus potentially legally safe from the abortionist's medical weapons).

[JohnHuang2]

Tony Blankley Mega-ping!

[TrailofTears]

tear roe down

[farmer18th]

Meanwhile, on an another methodological front, Mrs. Chelsea Sinclair, of Fincastle, Nevada, dealt another blow to Roe V Wade by employing an even older technology: applied literacy. Mrs. Sinclair actually read the United States Constitution, beginning to end, aloud, to a professional association previously unfamiliar with the document, the 9th Circuit Federal Court. After a fourth and fifth reading, confused jurists had to admit they had not heard the word "abortion" once.

[ken5050]

Reread later..too heavy for 5:30 in the morning...

[muawiyah]

Roe allowed state regulation of abortion (as a special medical practice) in the third tri-mester solely for the purpose of protecting the pregnant female, not protecting the baby.

It's always good to bother reading Roe v. Wade from time to time.

In fact, the original decision did not require that states restrict it to being performed by trained medical personnel. That's entirely up to each state.

A quick way to abolish abortion as a widespread activity in any state is to totally privatize it ~ eliminate the requirement that its practitioners have medical training, and remove the government paid guards ~ treat these people the same as if they were running a liquor store.

[alloysteel]

Ah, so I was not the only one who read "Brave New World" written by Aldous Huxley some three-quarters of a century ago, just before the rise of Fascism and National Socialism (two similar but distinct political philosophies, by the way), and with the birth of the "new Soviet man".

While the tale was shocking for its time, the world of hedonistic pleasures and the total detachment of sex from its procreative function seem commonplace now. And at last technology is catching up with the predictions made about artificial wombs and cloned workers, each classified into one of five levels of competency.

That was a world that seemed so - predictable. And static.

[Tax-chick]

This is really creepy.

[gbtheshark]

Where I think this will get interesting is when we get so far down the path of reading the DNA code of our little tykes that doctors will be able to identify the "gay gene" (if there IS such a thing)...and suddenly mom and dad want to either take out the pink little gene, or remove said baby altogether. We'd have the gay lobby suddenly fighting the abort-anything and everything lobby, but they would only be demanding that every GAY baby has a right to life. Thank heavens I'll be too old to really "get" much of what goes on by then :) ...

[Mia T]

This Roe irrelevance via a medical technology pincer movement is precisely what I argued to you last week! But I had argued viability of fetus on one side and non-medical methods of terminating pregnancy on the other.

My point to you was twofold:

1. that the Christian Right should not, therefore, divert its focus and waste its precious energy fighting abortion, an issue that will be mooted by medical science in the very near future
   
2. and more important, that the Christian Right should not effectively play the role of Ross Perot in 2008 to elect another unpopular and dangerous clinton by a plurality.
   
   That is to say, THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT MUST NOT ELECT HILLARY CLINTON BY DEFAULT by either voting for a third candidate or sitting out the election if the 2008 GOP candidate is not to its liking on the abortion issue.

 

The Christian Right--and all of us--must focus all of our energies winning the war on terrorism so that all of our children, the born and the unborn, will live.... In order to do that, we must roundly defeat hillary clinton... or any other dangerously inept Democrat that moribund party decides to put forth.

MAD hillary talks series #1 ALFRED E."What, me worry?" CLINTON + CRAZY HIL MAD COVER STORY THE THREAT OF TERRORISM AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON TO OVAL OFFICE	MAD hillary talks series #2 HILLARY'S MIDDLE-FINGER MINDSET Do you really want THAT finger on the button?
MAD hillary talks series #3 "What, me worry?" THE THREAT OF TERRORISM AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON TO OVAL OFFICE	MAD hillary talks series WHY MISSUS CLINTON IS DANGEROUS FOR THE CHILDREN, FOR AMERICA, FOR THE WORLD

BIN LADEN FINGERS CLINTON FOR TERROR SUCCESS (SEE FOOTAGE)
THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE


HILLARY'S MIDDLE-FINGER MINDSET (MAD COVER 2)
Do you really want THAT finger on the button?


THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT?
clinton legacy of lynching update


For the children?
the clintons ARE pornography downloads


HEAR MAD hillary talks #3:
"What, me worry?"


the significance of missus clinton's gratuitous gerundial g-droppings


CONDI RICE-HILLARY CLINTON VIRTUAL MATCHUP-2008
(BEAUTY AND THE HILDABEAST₂)


ALFRED E."What, me worry?" CLINTON + CRAZY HIL MAD COVER STORY
THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE


HILLARY'S TRIPLE PLAY
the clinton putsch + filegate + the gorelick wall


How did the flower children fall for the clintons, 2 such self-evident thugs and opportunists?
(FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME!)


Alfred E. Neuman + the threat of terrorism, according to hillary


HILLARY IS NIXON-PLUS ^{part 1}
BEWARE THE SYNERGY
Nixonian paranoia and fascistic mindset combine with
clintonian megalomania, ineptitude and, most important, easy betrayal of America
to make hillary clinton deadly dangerous for us all.


KLEIN BOOK CAUSES HILLARY TO (oops!) CONFIRM "THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY"
CLINTON'S REACTION EXPOSES FASCISTIC MINDSET, TEXTBOOK CASE OF PARANOIA + MEGALOMANIA, AND A CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT IN BROADDRICK RAPE

THE OLYMPIC HILDABEAST FLOPS
hillary stupidly invokes clinton utter failure: 9/11


HILLARY CLINTONSTAHL
clinton agitprop machine censors truth about hillary


BEAUTY AND THE HILDABEAST

• JEANINE PIRRO: 30-year career fighting for the abused woman
• HILLARY CLINTON: 30-year career abusing women
  

 

CLINTONS' DOCUMENTED ABUSE OF WOMEN


hillary clinton is a "CONGENITAL LIAR"
("I am not a crook")


hillary clinton: ABUSER, NOT VICTIM


retrograde feminist fraud positions herself as victim (again) in order to win White House
[FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME!]


NOTE THE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN CLINTON REACTION TIME AND CONTENT TO THE TWO RAPE CHARGES


CATCHING THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KINGFISH
differential reaction to the two rape charges snares the clintons


CLINTON RAPES, REVISIONISM, USEFUL IDIOTS AND ENTROPY (an update)


1st Feminist Prez Impeached
(clinton, pushed by the "smartest woman in the world," managed to impeach himself)


HILLARY FLUNKED D.C. BAR EXAM
"the smartest woman in the world" sought less competitive venue


JENNINGS DOES A DIMBLEBY: clinton legacy-RAGE redux


THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES ₃


THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES ₂


THE JEANINE PIRRO--HILLARY CLINTON VIRTUAL MATCHUP


Hillary vs. Jeanine?


JEANINE PIRRO: indefinite prison/psych-ward term for all rapists
(HILLARY CLINTON: 16-year oval-office term for 2 certain rapists)


HILLARY IS NIXON-PLUS ^{part 2}
BEWARE THE SYNERGY
Nixonian paranoia and fascistic mindset combine with
clintonian megalomania, ineptitude and, most important, easy betrayal of America
to make hillary clinton deadly dangerous for us all.

deletehillary.blogspot.com
virtualclintonlibrary.blogspot.com
hillarytalks.blogspot.com
missus clinton's REAL virtual office update

coming soon! deletehillary.com
[FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME!]

 

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2005

[Mia T]

Sorry, this post was meant for jla.

[jwalsh07]

[Mia T]

ROE, MEDICAL SCIENCE, THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT, ROSS PEROT + HILLARY CLINTON

[maica]

Very Important Point!!!


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That is to say, THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT MUST NOT ELECT HILLARY
CLINTON BY DEFAULT by either voting for a third candidate or sitting out
the election if the 2008 GOP candidate is not to its liking on the abortion
issue.



The Christian Right--and all of us--must focus all of our energies winning the
war on terrorism so that all of our children, the born and the unborn, will live.... In
order to do that, we must roundly defeat hillary clinton... or any other
dangerously inept Democrat that moribund party decides to put forth.

[maica]

Of course the irony of all this cut so many ways, it is hard to count. A technology designed to help homosexual couples and radical feminists have wombless babies may come into the service of conservatives (who oppose homosexual marriage and feminist values) as a means of ending abortion.

Cutting the other way, it is the technology of stem cell research and cloning (which many right-to-life conservatives want to outlaw) that may be needed to develop a technology that could be used to effectively legally end abortion -- thus creating for such conservatives the moral dilemma of supporting the use of what they judge to be unethical or immoral technologies to end the greatest slaughter of the innocent (millions of abortions a year).

How horribly possible!

[Mia T]

thanx :)

(see private note)

[Aquinasfan]

Logic, shmogic. It's not about logic. People want to reserve the right to kill their babies.

This is a straightforward fight between good and evil. Anyone who thinks that a reasonable "middle ground" can be found is kidding himself.

[Skooz]

You are absolutely correct.

Logic annihilates the "pro-choice" position. Therefore, the "pro-choicers" avoid logic and reason at all costs, and focus instead on screeching emotionalism and the subtle deception of euphamism.

The philosophical argument for "abortion rights" has been thoroughly discredited for decades. It has been all about crass emotionalism ever since.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Mia T]

The logical point is not to change ones ethics of abortion. It is to change the focus of ones energy AND ELECTORAL SUPPORT IN 2008.

The continual pushing back of the viability of the fetus to earlier and earlier stages of development by medical science will, in the near future, render all medical abortions illegal under current law.

With technology, in a sense, overturning Roe v. Wade, it makes infinitely more sense to concentrate ones efforts saving all the children, the born and the unborn alike, by winning the war on terrorism... which means, by defeating hillary clinton or any other inept, corrupt and dangerous democrat served up by that moribund and shamelessly seditious political party.

ROE, MEDICAL SCIENCE, THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT, ROSS PEROT + HILLARY CLINTON